>When several dimensions of personality are examined all at the same time, sex differences in personality are rather large. In 2012, Del Giudice and his colleagues simultaneously examined 15 dimensions of personality and found less than 10% overlap in men's and women's multivariate personality distributions. Still, it is unlikely all 15 of these dimensions are relevant to Google workplace performance. Del Giudice, M., Booth, T., & Irwing, P. (2012). The distance between Mars and Venus: Measuring global sex differences in personality. PloS one, 7, e29265.

Schmitt questions the relevance of Damores statements, not their correctness.

Quotes:

> In my view, claiming that sex differences exist in negative emotionality is not an "incorrect assumption about gender." It is an empirically well-supported claim (at least, based on the best psychological science we have so far). Still, it is not clear to me how such sex differences are relevant to the Google workplace.

> Again, though, most of these sex differences are moderate in size and in my view are unlikely to be all that relevant to the Google workplace (accounting for, perhaps, a few percentage points of the variability between men’s and women’s performance outcomes).

>Still, I think it's important to keep in mind that most psychological sex differences are only small to moderate in size, and rather than grouping men and women into dichotomous groups, I think sex and sex differences are best thought of scientifically as multidimensional dials, anyway (see here).

This all reads a lot like "He is not wrong in saying there are differences, but I don't think they are relevant in regards to the situation at Google"

i know almost nothing about this shitpost jamboree other than the guy said "women are shit coders, they're too empathetic" and then someone from google called him retarded because outside of really minor jobs coding proficiency isn't all that important since it's assumed

>Damore had to update his LinkedIn page after being found to have fudged his listed credentials, implying he completed a Ph.D. He in fact left the program to take a gig at Google.

lol

>And some of his former classmates told Wired that during his time at Harvard, he offended fellow grad students by performing a skit so off-color his program codirectors had to email the department to apologize.

hmm, interesting

wonder what it was about

>accounts of the event from three people who attended and one person familiar with the skit, Damore performed as professor Timothy Mitchison, who discovered a concept initially called “Microtubule Jerking." Damore, portraying Mitchison, used suggestive phrases to thank women who had helped with the "jerking" discovery.

>And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them.

>punch you in the face

>nobody would be able to collaborate with them

Makes me wonder about the "ideological echo chamber" the memo spoke of

>I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions. If we can’t have an honest discussion about this, then we can never truly solve the problem.

however, i may be more likely to agree with what they're saying (as opposed to right wing attention mongers) but i can still recognize there's a difference between "getting the word out about important issues" and "if i talk about these issues in a certain way i generate controversy and therefore clicks"

> The author specifically objects to using what his memo calls discriminatory means to achieve greater gender diversity, then adds that he has concrete suggestions for changes at Google that would “increase women’s representation in tech and without resorting to discrimination.” In his telling, this could be achieved by making software engineering “more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration” and changes that would “allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive,” as well as offering more opportunities for employees to work part time.

i mean, there was some flooding around here, and some people did get serious water damage of like ~4 feet of water, but the way they were talking about it you'd think it was katrina 2.0 (they also seemed to have completely forgotten katrina itself since it was 12 years ago and not 15)

Anyone who’s spent even a little bit of time around the internet in recent years knows that feminists and social justice warriors will take any opportunity to cry discrimination, but it’s time we had a dispassionate discussion and examined the empirical realities of fairness and equality in gender. If we look at the facts, it’s clear that, despite what some would have you think, it’s not so-called sexism but instead biological gender differences that keep women from succeeding in my meticulously engineered, six-story mega-labyrinth.

Every year, I abduct hundreds of people from their homes and drive them on a stolen school bus to a secret location in rural Montana, where lies the treacherous, windowless labyrinth I spent 20 long years designing and building to exacting specifications. When I let the people loose in my labyrinth, I give each person the same instructions: They are to complete the maze and defeat the furious, starving bull trapped at the center of its topmost level. And every year, about 75 percent of those who complete the task and emerge alive are men.

Before you feminazis start crying about how oppressive my labyrinth is, let’s remove emotions from the discussion and think rationally for a second. There are several evolved differences between women’s and men’s brains that explain the gender representation disparity in the Hall Of Exalted Heroes, where I commemorate the people who have survived my hellish complex. It is well-documented that women are genetically predisposed to focus on feelings and think through an empathetic lens, whereas men are hardwired to focus more on ideas and think systematically, innately equipping them to perform better when encountering the endless onslaught of mental and physical rigors posed by my fearsome death labyrinth.

The thing I love the most about like 20 something 4chan kids is that they think leftists don’t know aobut memes or weren’t ever on 4chan and hate it bc we’re prudes like dude we were there we had that phase if you’re a good person after a while those jokes stop being good

Collective autonomy can never exist without individual autonomy. If you think that people should give up their individual autonomy for the sake of the vague concept of “the community” (something that’s often poorly defined), you might want to step back for a second and think about if that actually gets rid of a hierarchy or not.

We should not be forced to relinquish our individuality. Individuals are who make up the whole.

Echoing the May 13 rally at the foot of Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue, hundreds of torch-wielding white nationalists who are attending Saturday’s Unite the Right rally gathered at the University of Virginia and marched to the Rotunda, chanting, “You will not replace us.”

>In the podcast, Peinovich discusses that neo-Nazi organizers are anticipating working with the police. He states, “Regardless of the status of the permit, [the police have said] they would be following through on their end. We are also prepared for the alternative. Police are saying they are offering the same level of protection, as if we had the permit.”

>But Peinovich went even further, claiming that members of neo-Nazi groups should bring firearms. Peinovich went on to say, “Bring whatever you need, that you feel you need for your self-defense. Do what you need to do for security of your own person, at this point… We don’t want [counter-protesters] to have the impression, that we are going to be showing up there, unarmed…that is not the case.”

> “We’ve got a legal team. If you come at us, we’re going to make it cost you. We have lawyers, and we have money. Don’t get it fucked up. We’re going to come back at you, and you’re going to hurt, financially. All you have to do is just do nothing, just let it happen.” After gloating that the ACLU is on their side, his guest host commented, “If they can sue some Christians for not wanting to bake a fag cake…”

last night in DnD my ranger/rogue halfling took 2 crits and one hit in a single round of combat and would have died due to the massive-damage-instant-death ruling if not for having an inspiration point to burn

now he's got no vocal chords because the beasty was in the process of trying to saw off his head when the party managed to pull it off of him

we were fighting two of these and got separated, i was worried i burnt the inspiration point for nothing as it only prevented me from dying THAT turn and it was still sawing through my neck and wailing on me with its other two arms

>THE MAN WITH THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PENIS CAN'T WORK OR HAVE SEX AND DOESN'T CARE

>Roberto Esquivel Cabrera, an unassuming 54-year-old man living in Mexico, is the owner of a nearly 19-inch member. He is essentially a human tripod. A lot of men wonder what it might be like to have such an improbable endowment and in an interview he recently gave to Barcroft TV, he made it clear: it actually sucks. A lot.

>As Cabrera relates in the video, he's virtually a virgin. One woman was too terrified to have sex with him, another found it too painful. He frequently gets urinary tract infections because his pee won't make it all the way out. The wrappings he wears on his mega-dong aren't just for modesty before the camera, either—chafing is apparently a big problem. And Cabrera can't work a normal job. He's considered disabled and on assistance from the Mexican government.

>Doctors have told Cabrera he should get penis reduction surgery so he can have a more normal life but strangely, he's refused. As a Mexican physician explains in the video, Cabrera's feeling that his massive member makes him somehow superior is cultural and he doesn't want to lose the status he feels he has over other men.

>"I am happy with my penis," says Cabrera, "and I wish to go back to the USA and spend the rest of my life over there."

>That's not all. Cabrera expresses a wish in the video that might be delusional for a lot of men: "I would like to be a porn star," he says, "and I think I would make a lot of money" in America